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African Appropriations
Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media
By: Matthias Krings
Paperback | 1 June 2015
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Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an "original" or "faithful copy," but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture.
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African Appropriations is a highly engaging, rigorous, and creative work, and among the most provocative and compelling books I have read in years. It is extremely suitable for undergraduate or graduate instruction, and highly recommended.
The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *Overall, African Appropriations is an engaging, readable, creative, and well-researched piece of scholarship.
* H-Material-Culture *African Appropriations is rich compendium of useful commentary on cultural and media forms that otherwise have received scattered treatment. It will certainly be a valuable resource for scholars and an accessible and interesting text for classrooms.
* African Studies Review *Not only does [Krings] straddle different societies . . . he also ranges across a host of differing cultural forms: spirit possession, music, graphic novels, film, posters, 419 letters, photo novels, and stickers, among others. The result is, and this should be stressed, a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies.
* American Ethnologist *ISBN: 9780253016294
ISBN-10: 0253016290
Series: African Expressive Cultures
Published: 1st June 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 328
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
For Grades: 17+
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23 x 15.5 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.49
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